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Yglesias: A good way to reduce racism might be to do away with mandatory diversity training
Hotair.com ^ | 11-22-21 | John Sexton

Posted on 11/22/2021 1:13:49 PM PST by DeweyCA

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This article tells us what we already know: CRT training is a heap of garbage and it has become a racket at which some people are making a lot of money. Many people know that CRT training doesn't work (in fact, it's often counter-productive), but people are too afraid of progressive wokesters to tell the truth about it. But the original article does have some URLs to good studies that confirm our ideas.
1 posted on 11/22/2021 1:13:49 PM PST by DeweyCA
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“The way to eliminate racism is to stop talking about it.”
~ Morgan Freedman


2 posted on 11/22/2021 1:14:48 PM PST by Fai Mao (I don't think we have enough telephone poles., )
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“Anti-racism” is dog-whistle for “Kill Whitey.”


3 posted on 11/22/2021 1:15:21 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum ("Communism is not love. Communism is a hammer which we use to crush the enemy." ― Mao Zedong)
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The original article is at: https://www.slowboring.com/p/how-to-be-an-anti-racist


4 posted on 11/22/2021 1:16:23 PM PST by DeweyCA ( )
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Do away with keeping all statistics by race except for medical research purposes. Just think how great America would be if all the money wasted on diversity trainers etc. could be used for customer service, product research, lowering prices, etc.


5 posted on 11/22/2021 1:19:14 PM PST by Freee-dame
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“The way to eliminate racism is to stop talking about it.”

That quote from a 60 Minutes interview was from 2009. I wonder if Morgan Freeman had the same view after 8 years of Obama. If he did, I would be impressed.

I very much enjoyed his appearances on The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson (2005-2014).

6 posted on 11/22/2021 1:21:49 PM PST by CatOwner (Don't expect anyone, even conservatives, to have your back when the SHTF in 2021.)
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Matt Yglesias is a Harvard alum. Unlike quite a few graduates of elite universities, he is using his intelligence to see through the scam that is “diversity training”.

Harvard, MIT, Tufts, and many others need to fire their “diversity” administrators. In the case of MIT, that means firing their president (a Venezuelan), who is the one who made “diversity training” mandatory!!!!


7 posted on 11/22/2021 1:23:36 PM PST by Honorary Serb (Kosovo is Serbia! Free Srpska! Abolish ICTY!)
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Intentional method of stirring the pot to promote dissension.

The vast majority of folks are trying to do better these days. From my vantage point, those who insist on training often want an existing “chip on the shoulder” to grow larger and fester.


8 posted on 11/22/2021 1:24:53 PM PST by RatRipper (The Biden Adm is leading an attack against US citizens . . . pure evil.)
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The intent of CRT is to create divisions and rub raw the wounds. It is not a mechanism for healing.


9 posted on 11/22/2021 1:28:35 PM PST by jimfree (My 19 y/o granddaughter continues to have more quality exec experience than Joe Biden.)
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Its a money maker for the “personnel training” industry !


10 posted on 11/22/2021 1:31:38 PM PST by Reily
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Racism is almost dead. The only people keeping it alive are people with PhDs in useless victim studies that have no other means of income.


11 posted on 11/22/2021 1:41:42 PM PST by struggle
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Racism had been on the downtrend for years until obama stoked things up at the behest of Soros and other commies who want to destroy the USA.

My dad was racist as all get out. Disowned my sister for marrying a black guy in the late 60s. Didn’t talk to her for 15 years. I heard GD N-word many times.

Me; In my late 20s, self employed and hanging off the side of a 16 story building with a black guy who was also self employed. We chose to work with each other. We trusted each other with our lives.

That black guy my sister married wasn’t African American. He was Portuguese American but he was dark. If you’d have heard him on the phone, you’d think he’s just another white guy from Massachusetts. He became a lineman and made good money and was a good provider.

I also worked at a company with 100 employees with 80 of them being Hispanic. Most were good people, some were jerks but that’s the same with people in general. Worked with plenty of white jerks too.


12 posted on 11/22/2021 1:43:01 PM PST by Pollard (PureBlood -- youtube.com/watch?v=VXm0fkDituE)
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What happened to judging a person by the content of their character? Was that guy cancelled?


13 posted on 11/22/2021 1:49:53 PM PST by Kid Shelleen (Beat your plowshares into swords. Let the weak say I am strong)
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Most senior execs view this as a form of insurance against lawsuits. If they get a claim from a present or former employee alleging discrimination they can point to the diversity training as an argument the corporation should not be liable.


14 posted on 11/22/2021 1:49:57 PM PST by colorado tanker
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Biden adminstration says ‘we will begin mandatory diversity sessions as soon as our counselors return from training in North Korea.’


15 posted on 11/22/2021 1:54:34 PM PST by Roadrunner383 (;)
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What happened to judging a person by the content of their character? Was that guy cancelled?


That is now paraphrased as an example of ‘racist thinking’.


16 posted on 11/22/2021 2:10:18 PM PST by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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Diversity training in the workplace is a steaming pile of excrement.

When I do it, I don’t even watch the mandatory videos. I simply let it run in the background with the sound off, and when I take the test, I simply answer as I know they want me to.

100% every time.

I used to get pissed and gnash my teeth, but doing it this way is kind of fun. Makes me realize I have their measure pretty well.


17 posted on 11/22/2021 2:10:18 PM PST by rlmorel (If the Biden Administration was only stupid or incompetent, some actions would benefit the USA.)
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Diversity training in the work place is a warning to whitie, behave or your gonna get sued, lose your job and possibly end up in jail


18 posted on 11/22/2021 2:16:24 PM PST by ronnie raygun
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the kind of diversity training that has become common in corporations and colleges is probably doing more harm than good.

If the left was TRYING to start a race war, what would they do differently?

19 posted on 11/22/2021 2:17:56 PM PST by Harmless Teddy Bear (add a dab of lavender in milk, leave town with an orange and pretend you're laughing with it)
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20 posted on 11/22/2021 2:26:59 PM PST by FroedrickVonFreepenstein
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